Notes on the plot Let us briefly remind you of the main elements of The Tell-Tale Heart plot, which might be relevant for understanding the power of symbolism. This puzzling literature is told from ...

True! — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed — not dulled them. So begins Edgar Allan Poe ...

In the 1843 story "The Tell-Tale Heart," Poe's protagonist slowly loses ... It's this "Evil Eye" that pushes the narrator over the edge of their own sanity and sees them murdering the man in ...

One of Poe’s most popular stories is “The Tell-Tale Heart.” First published in 1843, this short story, with its macabre narrator and sinister plot, typifies the tone of many of Poe’s works.

The unnamed narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” sits in perpetual paranoia, spiraling as he listens to the ever-growing heartbeat under his floorboards pulsate beneath him. One by one, ...

In Poe’s 1843 “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a narrator is so deeply bothered by an old man’s pale blue, “vulture-like eyes” that he kills him and hides his remains in the floorboards.

With a jeweler’s precision, Edgar Allan Poe forged a succinct masterpiece in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a story of madness and violence that runs a mere five or so pages. Would that such ...